This entire comment is absolute nonsensical garbage.

1) going out of one's way just to upset people? Is suicidal idiocy. In a product being aired for a profit motive? Financial and reputational idiocy.

2) "Pandering to the people who want a bland, conservative show" means you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. The show was originally meant to be additionally educational. The show was meant to be science-fiction and not fantasy. What it's doing RIGHT NOW is falling in line with the other garbage being produced now.

3) And here's where this gets fun. This show is what was responsible for turning me into a left-wing progressive over forty years ago. What the show is doing now is not "left-wing" or "progressive". Or "inclusive". And you were dumb enough to say it yourself - going out of his way to upset people. That's not inclusion, that's exclusion.

4) This is where it gets provably, non-subjectively stupid - in the self-contradictions. Even if what is now called "The Message" is COMPLETELY IGNORED, the show - that first special, was made by a mentally damaged idiot to be praised by mentally damaged idiots and it looks like that includes you.

A "male-presenting Time Lord" would never understand letting go of power? They said to the "male-presenting" whose influence is what made Donna give up the money. And when she woke up, female Donna whined and moaned about giving up the money. The Doctor as a male had previously given up the presidency of the Time Lords THREE TIMES. The Doctor originally gave up life on Gallifrey because he wanted to see the rest of the universe.

The male Doctor had given up the Bad Wolf energy to put back into the TARDIS or the Vortex. In, you know, the episode that Russell Davies had written himself.

Which means even if you completely ignore "The Message", Russell Davies is a brain-damaged incompetent moron who's fallen so far he can't do the basics of his own job - write a coherent story.

4) "and the notion of justice has always evolved over time along with real life society"

You are an idiot and a danger to society. If the idea of "justice" has changed, then we're lost. This is as good as historical revisionism. If society has changed and it gets to keep the thought that it's still a "just society" by CHANGING THE NOTION OF JUSTICE, then you've obviously always been at war with Eastasia.

And if you can't see that, if you genuinely think upsetting and excluding people is "inclusive" and "woke" then you yourself are lost, damaged, destructive, stupid and too dangerous to be allowed to interact with the public.

Muscle cramps in the dark and the dust have got to be much better than watching the show, I guess.

You may have noticed above that the people who've watched the show through the majority of 1) their lives and 2) the show's life are moving their sofas so they can stretch out and fall asleep on them.

I am disappointed, hurt, heartsick and depressed that the show has become what it is. It's even more depressing that people think this stuff is the new exemplar of "thrilling". This stuff is right up^W down there with "The Rings Of Power" and AppleTV's "Foundation". This isn't the end of the world, this is the stuff that makes us long for the end of the world.

But being lost to the public consciousness is good for the public.

No matter how boosted, prettier and polished the episodes might become, it's a polished *turd*. The show's general trend has been inevitably downward since 2005 and worse, that's after (admittedly some stinkers but also) some incredible stories from the 1990-2004 period in the novels.

And those "Tales from the TARDIS" or whatever. Does the BBC own no de-aging video technology? They got a bunch of fan props, over-jammed them with no sense of design or aesthetic into a room, clearly didn't put any money into these things, provided a slightly interesting concept that honestly was done way better even in the 1990s Virgin novels, handwaved the aging away with half a sentence (that was done much better in the novels) and produced what was ultimately nostalgia-bait rather than anything that might've led into the new storylines?

Boosted budgets? A fan with a personal collection and a phone camera could've done those.

This is not lipstick on a pig. Even if the lipstick adds nothing useful to the pig, you still have a pig. This is a polished turd and it's still a turd.

I swear I felt the same way, until I realised the script quality that started with the end of Eccleston's run and ramped up in Matt Smith's era, dragged down Peter Capaldi, was the core of Jodie Whitaker's whole run, which they're desperately trying to hide by dragging back Tennant and Tate and now goes full Disney with an ex-comic cute talking furry animal... is what's departed from our national public free-to-air broadcaster.

It's like an addictive drug with health benefits; being continually cut with laundry detergent or boric acid while the prices rise. Everything with the health benefits is swapped out for meat tenderiser and laxatives and cattle dewormer.

And I'm suddenly realising I am *not* even slightly upset anymore that the local health drug dealer has decided to move to the Big Smoke leaving the town dry because *nothing of value was lost*.

Well, it was, but that was around 2005.

RTD's ReTarDis. And they've gone full RTD ReTarDis Disney and as I said above, you should never go full Disney.
I'm happy to help, I'm afraid just not in the usual direction implied, sorry.

Will second everything said in that post.

Well, almost everything. The "major improvements" required would have to destroy and undo most everything in the last couple of seasons in order to be workable.

Regardless of how previous stories like say Mawdryn Undead or The Brain Of Morbius or whatever the garbage Planet Called Christmas episode or whatever one had Amy begging the Time Lords to give him just one more was called relied on the number of regenerations the Doctor had left... the Doctor now has infinite regenerations?

In the Doctor Who "EU" was this one novel where the Time Lords were at (a completely different and much more amazing) Time War; a weapon they'd invented triggered a Time Lord's regeneration, absorbed the relevant energy and rebroadcast it as a wave to non-safely-force-regenerate enemies in the vicinity. Not to mention "regenerating into a gender swap" was meaningless, stupid and *boring* because they were also directing regenerations into non-humanoid mission-requirement stealth forms like Cthulhoid entities. But we're supposed to be thrilled at the idea of a gender swap or even a skin colour swap whoopee-freaking-yawn.

One of those regeneration-wave devices, strapped to the Doctor now, dropped on a planet and done. Forever and ever and ever and ever.

There's a better reason on top of Disney+ or new RTD, to skip the new show. The Emperor has no clothes, is an idiot and the groundbreaking days of innovation and story brilliance are gone.

Not to mention they plunged the depths of the comics to give us back the Meep. A small furry cute talking animal. That, plus: the Australian Disney release schedule for 2024-5 has a list of titles and the label of said title. The MCU stuff is released under the "Marvel" label. "Doctor Who" is released under the "Disney" label. And the Meep is a small cute furry talking animal.

Doctor Who has gone full Disney. Which will go the same way as Marvel and Star Wars. And you should never go full Disney.

The plotlines back then were pretty coherent and tight. Some were so iconic that yes, even if I haven't watched them in over a decade, the points are still clear in the mind. Helped also that I devoured the novelisations of those episodes.

Whereas, with my housemate, I asked her what stories of the last Doctor she remembered. Partly because I was testing myself; it turns out my passive memory for them is fine, if I was prompted with one element from the story I could remember the rest, but if you asked me to list a point from a bunch of such stories, I'd be lost unassisted. ... when she named one plot point from an episode from the Doctor BEFORE the Doctor under discussion, I pointed this out to her. And I recognised that because no matter how bad the scripts were, Peter Capaldi was awesome. He made even miserable 21st century scripts almost bearable.

An Unearthly Child. The Daleks. The Edge Of Destruction. The Dalek Invasion Of Earth. The Space Museum. The Celestial Toymaker (where I learned the Towers game). The War Games. Day Of The Daleks. Pyramids Of Mars which got spun into part of the spinoff series's "Faction Paradox" worldbuilding. Look, and so on and so on and so on.

The old stories were not only memorable, not only tight, but well executed. Whereas the new stuff is so thoroughly soaked in castor oil and teflon, it's forgettable within a week. Even to somebody absolutely soaked in the previous worldbuilding.

Hello, siblings from Fallout. We of the Tolkien and/or Asimov tribes welcome you to whichever support groups you might need. Good luck.

Not on any of my machines. Plus just because it's (almost) everywhere doesn't mean you aren't still *wrong*. It's still crap and that's the reason I don't allow it on any of my machines.

Let's add to dnrb's comment that all of the people screaming about how bad Poettering's systemd garbage is remember his stupid spouting about how "liberating" it was to abandon POSIX when writing system software, so at this point let's just realise how wrong you are.

Where's my Office for Linux? Where's my Teams for Linux, you know, after they discontinued it? Where's my Visio for Linux?

Kudos.

Kudos, for having to ditch all the work they did because after all that money and effort it was still such a piece of trash it was easier for them to take the free stuff they'd been mocking for years.

Kudos. This is the kind of logic that brought us modern Hollywood. Wow.

"Microsoft hasn't stood in the way of Linux in years" and in the very next paragraph, "They know Windows is still shipped with nearly all retail consumer PCs. They know they have a near lock on the gaming market". ... no, this. This must be what going mad feels like.

You can't even be joking, you must be high as balls. Microsoft shit on the Linux community for decades and you're talking about the COMMUNITY shitting on Microsoft after barely even a bone?